Carmelite

an order of mendicant friars. They claim to be in direct succe ion from Elijah, gt their real founder was Berth old, Cal a brian, who, with a few companions, migrated to Mount Carmel about the middle of the 12th century, and built a humble cottage with a chapel, where he and his a ociates led a laborious and solitary life. The order is divided into two branches, viz., the Carmelites of the ancient observance, called moderate or mitigated, and those of the strict observance, who are known as the barefooted Carmelites.